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Stop Unocal's Atrocities Against the People and Rainforests of Burma!
The gas pipeline will go through a variety of ecosystems including dense tropical forest, disrupting the habitat of rare animals such as tigers, rhinos and elephants. The pipeline area is inhabited by the Karen, Mon and Tavoy peoples who have partial control of the region. This venture is currently linked to forced village relocation, the forced labor of tens of thousands of local inhabitants, and fatalities at the hands of the SLORC troops. This entire region is a war zone due to the ethnic peoples' need to defend themselves against SLORC attacks, making the region highly unstable. Wetlands is joining activist groups around the world in working to expose Unocal's abuses of human rights and the environment, and force Unocal to join Heineken, Texaco, Arco, Apple Computer, Disney, Eastman Kodak, Hewlett-Packard, Levi-Strauss &Co., PepsiCo, and many other companies who have pulled of Burma! What You Can Do:
Additional Information: UNOCAL: MAKING A KILLING IN
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The Unocal Oil Corporation is involved in a natural gas venture with
one of the world's most brutal and repressive military regimes,
Burma's State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC). SLORC
has received the strongest condemnations from the US Congress,
the US State Department, the European Parliament, the United Nations
Human Rights Commission, the International Labor Organization,
Amnesty International, and ten Nobel Peace Laureates. Foreign
oil corporations provide one of the largest sources of revenue
to the SLORC regime, helping them keep their reign of terror.
